The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.